562. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Transport which document is to be treated as the authoritative fare and expense record where the amount shown on an app transaction differs from the amount shown on the statutory taximeter receipt, and whether the transparency and reconciliation of app-controlled fares against the statutory taximeter receipt will be expressly addressed in the current review of dispatch o…
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563. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Transport in respect of a discounted app fare product (details supplied) reported to be part-funded by the driver and part-funded by the dispatch operator, the amount a driver is required to enter in the discount field of the statutory taximeter receipt, whether the driver-funded element or the total passenger discount; the amount that is to be recorded as the total fare…
564. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Transport the auditable record that is retained of the exact metered figure manually entered by a driver into an app-based dispatch platform at the end of a journey; the way in which a driver is protected in the event that a passenger subsequently claims to have been charged a fare higher than the metered amount that the driver correctly entered into the app; and if he w…
565. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Transport in the case of an app-based fixed price fare (details supplied) where the passenger is charged the lower of the fixed price or the metered fare, the way in which a driver is expected to accurately calculate and record the discount on the statutory taximeter receipt in circumstances where the driver is not shown the final fare charged to the passenger; and if he…
566. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Transport further to the statutory requirement that a taximeter continue to calculate the metered fare even where a lower fare has been agreed, and that the driver print and offer the prescribed taximeter receipt showing the total fare payable together with a designated space for tips, discounts and tolls, whether app-based dispatch operators are required to display to t…